Word: anti-salooner
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Seemingly parallel to Dr. Straton's venture is the drive for funds now staged by the Anti-Saloon League. At a meeting in a Boston Church Rev. William, Harmon van Allen pleaded for contributions of from ten to one hundred dollars partly as a thank-offering to God for the blessings of Prohibition, and partly to fight, "any conspiracy of pocketbooks empty bottles, or of bums" who should make attempt at repeal the Volstead Act in 1928. So far as can be learned no specific mention was made as to the use of these funds. It is not vitally needed...
...Adopted Senator Edwards' resolution calling on Secretary Mellon to reveal what role the Anti-Saloon League had in fixing the poisonous denaturants used in industrial alcohol...
Wayne B. Wheeler, paid advocate of the Anti-Saloon League, at once found himself the villain of the story. His statements through the week fluctuated between the rabid and the sensible arguments of the Drys. Said...
...logical, logical without being dull, slyly humorous but minus the handicaps in persuasion of one who openly jests. A good example of his talents is his mot upon the Mexican law forbidding the holding of political meetings in churches. Said he: "This would have been bad for the Anti-Saloon League in the days that are gone. But when has the Catholic Church ever permitted churches to be used for such purposes?" Here we have a criticism of Mexican law, a sly dig at the Anti-Saloon League and a fervent affirmation of the spotless honor of the Church...
...Meanwhile, last week in Manhattan, Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler, president of Columbia University, suggested that the U. S. move its capital to Westerville, Ohio, the birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League. Then Clarence Darrow, dexterous Chicago criminal lawyer, told Manhattanites that it was a "civic duty to violate the Prohibition...